30th EGOS Colloquium, July 3–5, 2014, Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University, The Netherlands, General Theme Reimagining, Rethinking, Reshaping: Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times

30^th EGOS Colloquium

General Theme

Reimagining, Rethinking, Reshaping:
Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times

July 3–5, 2014

Rotterdam School of Management

Erasmus University, The Netherlands

 

Please note:

• The Calls for Short Papers will be posted on the EGOS website by mid/end of August 2013.
• If you intend to submit a short paper, please first take a look at the Guidelines and criteria for the submission of short papers at EGOS Colloquia.
• Time period for submission of short papers:
  Monday, September 16, 2013 to Monday, January 13, 2014.

Many countries have experienced unprecedented levels of economic development over the last three decades. Economic activity – ranging from manufacturing production in newly industrialized countries to the blossoming of the creative industries in post-industrial societies and an expanse of the professional services sector in nearly all locales – has grown rapidly. Moreover, pressures for further globalization have removed pre-existing barriers, such that labor, financial capital, and products are now moving even more freely than in the late Victorian age. These worldwide shifts have provided abundant opportunities in the form of rising societal affluence, organizational effectiveness, and social mobility of talents.

Yet these shifts have simultaneously placed new demands and strong pressures on businesses, societies, and the natural environment. An increasing scarcity of natural resources and spiking emission rates of CO₂ gas and other pollutants constitute a serious threat to future economic growth and societal well-being. Moreover, unemployment rates – especially amongst younger generations – have risen substantially in a variety of national contexts. And the devastating mortgage, banking, and sovereign debt crises of the last decade have ravaged societies and organizations in many corners of the world.

All in all, these repercussions of nearly unbridled economic growth have resulted in societal disgruntlement and severe blowback concerning the way in which privileged groups in society, large organizations, and entrepreneurs have exploited society and the natural environment in the perennial search for profits and growth. These repercussions have also triggered intense discussions about the feasibility and acceptability of the measures we might take towards durably ensuring the provision of goods and services, while safeguarding extra-economic values like equality, justice, and citizenship.

As these challenges have radically changed the global landscape in which individuals and organizations act, they bring novel questions to the centre-stage of our organizational scholarship. The 2014 EGOS Colloquium will provide an opportunity for organizational scholars to reflect on these global challenges, and to reimagine, rethink, and reshape our scholarship in light of the deeply invasive period of stagnation and decline we currently face:

• How can we ensure that the ways in which organizations generate profits and benefits contributing to human development today do not compromise or jeopardize the well-being of other societies or future generations?
• What are the implications of the current economic and social challenges for the way we live, design our organizations, and support our society?
• How can we change our ways as organizational scholars to stimulate organizational and societal reflexivity on these pressing themes more effectively?

In Rotterdam, the processes of reimagining, rethinking, and reshaping are wholly ingrained in the local DNA. Being a port city, Rotterdam has always attracted people from a wide variety of nationalities, some of whom passed through, while others stayed permanently. They brought with them foreign ideas, cultures, and practices, which challenged, provoked, and eventually changed the local customs. More dramatically even, the near complete destruction of Rotterdam in the mid-20th century at the same time offered an opportunity to reimagine, rethink, and reshape the entire urban plan of the city. This natural experiment has shown that the processes of reimagining, rethinking, and reshaping are not easy and never complete. Yet the beauty behind it all is that to be in Rotterdam is to be in a place that is constantly in the process of reinventing itself, and to be able to witness the remnant of reinvention attempts that are now abandoned but that have left behind flotsam and jetsam that is too beautiful or interesting to discard wholly.

Colloquium Fees

30th EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, July 3–5, 2014

Please note: 

• You must be registered as an "active" EGOS member to participate in the Colloquium!
• This means that your EGOS membership fee must have already been paid before registering for the main Colloquium. For more information on how to renew or to register your EGOS membership, please click here.

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Colloquium registration via the EGOS website will start on February 15, 2014!

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Colloquium registration fee	Up to May 15, 2014	After May 15, 2014
EGOS Full Member	EUR 395	EUR 475
EGOS PhD/Student Member	EUR 275	EUR 475

EGOS Dinner & Party on Friday, July 4, 2014: EUR 95. Space limited, therefore: please book early!

The Colloquium registration fee includes: 

• Access to Colloquium sessions (sub-themes, sub-plenaries, etc.) on Thursday, July 3, Friday, July 4, and Saturday, July 5, 2014
• Welcome Cocktail on Wednesday, July 2, 2014
• Opening Ceremony on Thursday, July 3, 2014
• Coffee breaks and lunches on Thursday, July 3, Friday, July 4, and Saturday, July 5, 2014
• Personal badge, Certificate of Attendance, Colloquium bag and program book

Please note:

• Early registration can only be granted to participants whose payment has been received by the local Rotterdam Registration Secretariat no later than May 15, 2014 (23:59:59 CEST).
• You can pay for the EGOS Colloquium either directly online or by bank transfer. Once online registration is completed, all registered participants will automatically receive a confirmation of their registration and a detailed electronic invoice.
• Payment by credit card: only VISA and MasterCard credit cards payments are accepted.

Refund of registration fees:

• Before May 31, 2014: All fees will be refunded, minus an administrative charge of EUR 30.
• There will be no refunds for cancellations made after June 1, 2014.
• Registrations for the EGOS Dinner & Party can only be refunded before June 15, 2014.
  July 3–5, 2014
  Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
  egos2014@rsm.nl

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  The Calls for Papers are listed below.

  Please note:

  • Short papers should focus on the main ideas of the paper, i.e. they should explain the purpose of the paper, theoretical background, the research gap that is addressed, the approach taken, the methods of analysis (in empirical papers), main findings, and contributions. In addition, it is useful to indicate clearly how the paper links with the sub-theme and the overall theme of the Colloquium, although not all papers need to focus on the overall theme. Creativity, innovativeness, theoretical grounding, and critical thinking are typical characteristics of EGOS papers. – Your short paper should comprise 3,000 words (inc. references, all appendices and other material).
       
  • If you intend to submit a short paper, please first take a look at the Guidelines and criteria for the submission of short papers at EGOS Colloquia.
      
  • Time period for submission of short papers:
    – Start: Monday, September 2, 2013
    – End:  Monday, January 13, 2014, 23:59:59 Central European Time (CET)

  
  

  List of sub-themes (Calls for Papers)

  Sub-theme 01: (SWG) Beyond the Mainstream: Careers of Special Groups Convenors: Polly Parker, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Martin Gubler

  Sub-theme 02: (SWG) Organizational Trust across Contexts: Towards More Context-sensitive Research Convenors: Nicole Gillespie, Antoinette Weibel, Rosalind Searle

  Sub-theme 04: (SWG) Critical Approaches to Organizing and Managing Diversity Convenors: Regine Bendl, Elina Henttonen, Evangelina Holvino

  Sub-theme 05: (SWG) Strategizing Practices and Resources: Unpacking the Micro-Foundations and Dynamics of Resource Allocation, Deployment, Development and Perception Convenors: Martin Friesl, Patrick Regnér, Carlo Salvato

  Sub-theme 06: (SWG) Reconceptualizing Contemporary Public Services Organizations Convenors: Christine Teelken, Ewan Ferlie, Jean-Louis Denis

  Sub-theme 07: (SWG) Visualizing Institutions and Knowledge Convenors: Markus A. Höllerer, Walter W. Powell, Tammar B. Zilber

  Sub-theme 08: (SWG) Back to the Future: Using History to Study Organizations in Uncertain Times Convenors: Matthias Kipping, Behlül Üsdiken, R. Daniel Wadhwani

  Sub-theme 09: (SWG) Leadership in Art, Design and Organization Convenors: Stefan Meisiek, Eila Szendy-El Kurdi, Junko Takagi

  Sub-theme 10: (SWG) Collaboration and Confrontation: Dynamic Interactions between Corporations and Non-Governmental Organizations Convenors: Frank de Bakker, Frank den Hond, Marie-France Turcotte

  Sub-theme 11: (SWG) What's Up in the Contemporary MNC: New Research Perspectives Convenors: Christoph Dörrenbächer, Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Susanne Blazejewski

  Sub-theme 12: (SWG) Re-processing Organization Studies: Rethinking Key Organizational Themes through a Processual Lens Convenors: Henrika Franck, Joep P. Cornelissen, Mike Zundel

  Sub-theme 13: (SWG) Creative Industries Revamped: Trespassing and Crosspollination Convenors: Candace Jones, Barbara Slavich, Silviya Svejenova

  Sub-theme 14: (SWG) Organizational Network Research: Organization and Renewal of Organizational Networks Convenors: Terry L. Amburgey, Jörg Raab, Barak S. Aharonson

  Sub-theme 15: (SWG) Organizational Ethnography: The Theoretical Challenge Convenors: Heidi Dahles, Heather Höpfl, Juliette Koning

  Sub-theme 16: Theorizing Time and History within Organization Theory Convenors: David Chandler, Roy Suddaby, Rodolphe Durand

  Sub-theme 17: Unexpected Events: Sensemaking, Monitoring, Coping Convenors: Daniel Geiger, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Georg Schreyögg

  Sub-theme 18: Once More unto the Breach: Filling Institutional Voids in Emerging Markets Convenors: Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Marleen Dieleman, Suzana Rodrigues

  Sub-theme 19: Organizing Intellectual Property within and between Firms Convenors: Dries Faems, Alberto Di Minin, Bart Van Looy

  Sub-theme 20: M&A Activity in Times of Turbulence: Reshaping Environments, Organizations and Individuals? Convenors: Philippe Véry, Satu Teerikangas, Mélanie Hassett

  Sub-theme 21: Emotions, Culture and Stress in the Global Interorganizational Encounters Convenors: Cary L. Cooper, Duncan N. Angwin, Shlomo Y. Tarba

  Sub-theme 22: Movements, Markets and Fields Convenors: Brayden King, Simone Schiller-Merkens, Philip Balsiger

  Sub-theme 23: Public Sector Reforms and Organizational Responses: Comparing Universities and Hospitals Convenors: Rómulo Pinheiro, Francisco O. Ramirez, Karsten Vrangbæk

  Sub-theme 24: Marxism and Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times Convenors: Paul S. Adler, Rick Delbridge, Matt Vidal

  Sub-theme 25: Entrepreneurs, Networking and Clusters: A Multi-Level Perspective Convenors: Cristina Boari, Tom Elfring, F. Xavier Molina Morales

  Sub-theme 26: Emotions and (the Limits of) Institutional Control Convenors: Jaco Lok, Maxim Voronov, Hugh Willmott

  Sub-theme 27: Business Models and Strategies: Organizations and Alternative Forms of Organizing Convenors: Stefan Häfliger, Charles Baden-Fuller, Vincent Mangematin

  Sub-theme 28: Unsettling Boundaries: Practices of Inter-organizational Collaboration Convenors: Kristina Lauche, Hans Berends, Paul Carlile

  Sub-theme 29: Rethinking Enterprise Models for the Future: Organizational Evolution towards Sustainability Convenors: Arnaldo Camuffo, Kerstin Neumann, Maurizio Zollo

  Sub-theme 30: From Change Management to Change Leadership Convenors: Ben Kuipers, Rune Todnem By, Malcolm Higgs

  Sub-theme 31: Theorizing the Network Organization Convenors: Josh Whitford, Francesco Zirpoli

  Sub-theme 32: Leveraging a Paradox Perspective to Reimagine, Rethink and Reshape Organization Tensions Convenors: Ina Ehnert, Marianne W. Lewis, Valérie Michaud

  Sub-theme 33: Re-organizing Work, Sociality and Citizenship in Crisis Convenors: Maria Daskalaki, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Paul Donnelly

  Sub-theme 34: The Rise of Accountability: Rethinking Management Accounting, Control and Organization Theory Convenors: Max Visser, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Ed Vosselman

  Sub-theme 35: Status Mechanisms in Organizations and Markets: From Networks to Categories Convenors: François Collet, Déborah Philippe, Matthew S. Bothner

  Sub-theme 36: Creativity in Doubtful Times: Exploring Challenges and Threats to Creativity Convenors: Jill Perry-Smith, Barbara Imperatori, Rita Bissola

  Sub-theme 37: Studying Project-based Organizing through a Temporal Lens Convenors: René M. Bakker, Andreas Schwab, Jörg Sydow

  Sub-theme 38: The Corporatization of Politics and the Politicization of Corporations Convenors: Christian De Cock, Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright

  Sub-theme 39: The Modern Crisis of Change and Intervention Convenors: Ralf Wetzel, Christopher J. Rees, Ruth Alas

  Sub-theme 40: Universities in Unsettled Times: Effects of Evaluations, Accreditations and Rankings Convenors: Lars Engwall, Alfred Kieser, Richard Whitley

  Sub-theme 41: The Power of Management Experts in Organizations and Society Convenors: Stefan Heusinkveld, Andrew Sturdy, Andreas Werr

  Sub-theme 42: Innovation in Organizations Convenors: J. Richard Harrison, Alf Steinar Sætre

  Sub-theme 43: Performativity as Politics: Rethinking Performativity and Power Dynamics Convenors: Laure Cabantous, Jean-Pascal Gond, Yuval Millo

  Sub-theme 44: Organizing in a Connected World: Connectivity, Mobility and Digital Disruptions Convenors: Darl G. Kolb, Kristine Dery, Julia Richardson

  Sub-theme 45: Reimagining Management Practices in Times of Rising Inequality along Socio-Demographic Lines Convenors: Patrizia Zanoni, Marieke van den Brink, Maddy Janssens

  Sub-theme 46: Organizing the Uncanny: Rethinking the Uncomfortably Familiar in Organization Studies Convenors: Martin Parker, Simon Kelly, Kathleen Riach

  Sub-theme 47: Sustaining Inequality? The Impact of Organizational Practices on Individual Employment Outcomes Convenors: Emilio J. Castilla, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo

  Sub-theme 48: Reshaping Society through Social Innovation: Organizational, Community and Institutional Foundations Convenors: Damon Golsorkhi, Bernard Leca, Jeffrey Sallaz

  Sub-theme 49: Affective Ontologies for Performative Organizations Convenors: Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Marianna Fotaki, Mark Thompson

  Sub-theme 50: The Challenge of Configuration: Bridging Perspectives and Methodologies Convenors: Bart Cambré, Peer C. Fiss, Axel Marx

  Sub-theme 51: Seeing, Knowing and Governing: The Organization, Institutionalization and Politics of Transparency Convenors: Mikkel Flyverbom, Christina Garsten, Afshin Mehrpouya

  Sub-theme 52: Mobile Work, Technology and Issues of Control Convenors: João Vieira da Cunha, Andrea Carugati, Marleen Huysman

  Sub-theme 53: Strategy, Design and Organizing in City Development Processes Convenors: Nils Wåhlin, Stewart Clegg, Anette Hallin

  Sub-theme 54: Reshaping Workplaces: Workplace Innovation as Designed by Scientists and Practitioners Convenors: Steven Dhondt, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Geert van Hootegem

  Sub-theme 55: Performativity or Responsibility? Competing Perspectives on Contemporary Organizing Convenors: Gilles Crague, Barbara Czarniawska, François Dedieu

  Sub-theme 56: Markets and (Re-)Valuations inside Sustainability Transformations Convenors: Peter Karnøe, Jeroen Struben, Liliana Doganova

  Sub-theme 57: Language and Leadership: Discursive Variations in Ways of Leading Convenors: Doris Schedlitzki, Peter Case, David Knights

  Sub-theme 58: Reshaping Firms: Downsizing, Reorganizing, Intervening Convenors: Rick Aalbers, James P. Guthrie, Wilfred Dolfsma

  Sub-theme 59: Things Ain't What They Used to Be: Objects, Relations, Materiality Convenors: Dean Pierides, Jon Roffe, Stephen Linstead

  Sub-theme 60: Rethinking Responses to Institutional Complexity Convenors: Royston Greenwood, Patrick Vermeulen, Charlene Zietsma

  Sub-theme 61: Activity Theory and Organizations Convenors: Yrjö Engeström, Anu Kajamaa, Zlatko Bodrožić

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